Beyond the Technology: The education 4.0 podcast

Welcome to the Jisc Podcast in which Michelle Pauli talks to Chris Batt, of Chris Batt Consulting, about the Libraries of the Future debate being held at Oxford University at the beginning of April 2009.

Ewan McIntosh, Digital Commissioner for 4iP, talks with Rebecca O'Brien from Jisc via Skype about mobile gaming, how thinking from the learner's perspective is key, and how universities have a virtual role in mixing logical thinking with inspiring creativity. Ewan will be delivering one of the keynote speeches at Jisc's annual conference in Edinburgh on March 24th, 2009.

In this podcast Rebecca O'Brien is joined by Professor Lizbeth Goodman who is Professor of Creative Technology Innovation, Director of SMARTlab Digital Media Institute and MAGIC (Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre) at the University of East London and also Director of FutureLab. Professor Goodman will be giving one of the keynote speeches at the Jisc 2009 Conference in Edinburgh..

The not-for-profit Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) is the principal sponsor of Jisc's 2009 annual conference in Edinburgh. In this podcast interview OCLC's Vice President Karen Calhoun talks to Robert Haymon-Collins, Jisc's Director of Communications and Marketing, to discuss what her organisation does in the field of providing digital content for learning and research, and how improved access to this well-catalogued knowledge can help improve the student experience - a key theme of this year's Jisc conference. Calhoun also clarifies OCLC's recent proposed policy changes concerning the use of OCLC records, an issue that has generated lively debate within the library and information communities both in the UK and further afield.

Over 15,000 rare photographs, posters and press cuttings charting the history of East London theatre are now freely available online as part of the East London Theatre Archive (ELTA), a digitisation project spearheaded by the University of East London and funded by Jisc. In this podcast, project manager Yvonne Klein talks to Kerry O'Neill to describe what makes this rich digital archive so unique, and how opening up online access to these documents - which would otherwise be too fragile to handle - will add value and interest to the learning and teaching experience.

Information literacy has become a key concern of many in the education sector and beyond. In this podcast interview John Crawford and Christine Irving, of the Scottish Information Literacy project, talk to Philip Pothen about their work in the education sector, in the workplace, with libraries, and with government agencies and argue that information literacy is the 'democratic right' of every learner, and a central element of lifelong learning.

In this podcast Kerry O'Neill from Jisc talks with Ann Thunhurst, manager of Jisc Regional Support Centre South East, about the "New Build - Zeroing in on Carbon Footprints" event held at Jisc's London offices in January 2009. Ms Thunhurst then explains why senior managers within education need to consider their carbon output in every new build, and why they must show vision today in order to future-proof their buildings for tomorrow.

In this podcast Rebecca O'Brien from Jisc talks with Peter James, Professor of Environmental Management at the University of Bradford and head of the Jisc-funded SusteIT project, about the recently published Green ICT report. In the interview Prof Peter James talks through how further and higher education institutions can make small changes to save money and reduce their carbon footprint.

John Selby is HEFCE's Director of Education and Widening Participation, with responsibility for a number of key policy areas including HEFCE's links with Jisc. In this podcast interview, given at Jisc's Innovation Forum in July 2008, he talks about Jisc's activities, how it links with HEFCE's work and the wider challenges of higher education in this country.

Universities need to 'work together' and 'pool their IT talents' to maintain the UK's position of global leadership in technology. So says Professor Tim O'Shea, Principal of Edinburgh University, in a podcast interview released today to mark Professor O'Shea's chairmanship of Jisc which begins this month.

Sarah Porter is Jisc's Head of Innovation, responsible for leading Jisc's work to support innovation across the higher education sector. In this podcast interview, given at Jisc's Innovation Forum in the summer, Sarah talks about the importance of innovation and why investment in innovation is crucial to the future of the sector.

The British Library is a national institution, a rich store of both British and world treasures and a place where students, researchers, business people and many others come to access a collection of resources that's pretty much unmatched throughout the world. But the library is more than this...it's also for some years been embracing technology in a variety of ways and in doing so helping to redefine the concept of the library in the digital age. Dame Lynne Brindley is the CEO of the British Library and she has led the way in its engagement with the digital environment and in a way that, as she makes clear in the following interview, has particular significance for the education and research sectors.

In this podcast Jane Charlton was at the Jisc CNI Conference in Belfast and spoke to Sir David Melville who is Chair of the UK Committee of Inquiry into Changing Learner Experience.

In this podcast Jane Charlton was at the Jisc CNI Conference in Belfast and spoke to Betsy Wilson, Dean of University Libraries at the University of Washington in Seattle, about the student learning experience.

Jane Charlton and Simon Whittemore from Jisc attended the ALT-C pre-conference workshop on small businesses and the digital divide. The workshop was attended by conference delegates and representatives from Yorkshire and Humberside's business community. Yorkshire Forward, Yorkshire and Humberside's Regional Development Agency, gave some context to the workshop discussions by presenting the findings from their 2008 ICT Regional Benchmarking Study report. Digital 20/10 is an initiative of Yorkshire Forward, responsible for the successful development of digital skills in the region. Its successor, Digital 20/20 is a collaboration between major ICT businesses, the public sector and skills providers in the region tasked with increasing ICT adoption across all sectors from the public sector through to business and the general public. In this podcast Jane Charlton speaks to Robert Ling from Yorkshire Forward, David Kay of Sero Consulting who manages the Digital 20/10 initiative and Simon Whittemore, the Programme Manager of Business and Community Engagement for Jisc.